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DES MOINES, Iowa - A Lee County woman said she checked her
numbers three different ways before she believed she had won
a $10,000 Hot Lotto prize.

Valencia Kassmeyer, 59, said she picked up her Hot Lotto
tickets as part of her regular routine and never dreamed
she'd match all but one of the numbers to win a $10,000
prize in the Nov. 3 drawing.

"I was really excited yesterday," Kassmeyer said. "I started
to check them online and checked them and re-checked them.
And then I got out my Hawkeye local newspaper and checked
them again. And I was still so shocked I thought, 'I'm just
going to go get a print out.'"

Kassmeyer, who is from West Point, drove to a local retailer
to have the ticket validated. When the numbers matched up,
that's when she believed she'd won. She called her husband
to tell him the good news.

"He was really excited. We live on a farm and this year
wasn't a good year for farming, so this will help," she
said.

Kassmeyer has also told her children and their families. All
of them were very happy for her.

Kassmeyer said she won with an "easy pick," but also plays
her own numbers sometimes. She said she plans to continue
with her same routine of buying Hot Lotto tickets every once
in a while.

"Maybe I'm too much of a person of routine," Kassmeyer said
with a laugh.

Kassmeyer said she plans to put her winnings into savings
until she can decide how to use the money.

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